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1. Who is the winner of  Australian Open 2013 Women's title ?Answer: Victoria Azarenka

2. Who is the winner of  Australian Open 2013 men's title ?Answer: Novak Djokovic 

3. Who is the chief guest of 2013 Pravasi Bharatiya Divas ?Answer: Rajkeswur Purryag, President of Mauritius (Held in Kochi)

4. Who is the chief guest of republic day 2013 ?Answer: Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, King of Bhutan

5. Who is first female President of South Korea ?Answer: Park Guen-hye

6. Who is the first female Chief Justice of Sri Lanka ?Answer: Shirani Bandaranayake (recently impeached)

7. Who is the winner of DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013 ?Answer: Jeet Thayil (book - Narcopolis)

8. Which is the   Longest Railway Tunnel in India ? Answer:   Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel   ( Banihal   railway tunnel)

9. Where did the World Economic Forum annual meeting held ?Answer: Davos, Switzerland

10. Who has been conferred won Keerthi Chakra (the second highest among peace time gallantry awards of the country) ?Answer: Major Anoop Joseph

11. Which Indian scientist conferred with China's top science award ?Answer: CNR Rao

12. Who is the winner of Ranji Trophy 2012-2013 ?Answer: Mumbai

13. Which country recently test fired  Hatf-9 (Nasr) missile  ?Answer:  Pakistan 

14. Who is the new Chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi  ? Answer: Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty

15. Who is the new  President of Sahitya Akademi ?Answer: Dr. Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari

16. Who is appointed as the next Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations ?Answer: Asoke Kumar Mukerji 

17. Who is the worlds oldest Marathon runner ?Answer: Fauja Singh

17. Which film won this year's Best Picture Oscar ?Answer: Argo

18. Which actor won this year's Best Actor (in a Leading Role) Oscar ?Answer: Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

19. Which actress won this year's Best Actress (in a Leading Role) Oscar ?Answer: Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)

20. Who won this year's Best Director Oscar ?Answer: Ang Lee (Life of Pi)

21. Who is the first person to win Best Actor Oscar thrice ?Answer: Daniel Day-Lewis

22. What is the theme of 2013

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International Women’s Day (march 8) ?Answer: A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women

23. New Governor of Nagaland ?Answer: Ashwani Kumar 

24. New Governor of Kerala ?Answer: Nikhil Kumar 

25. New Governor of Odisha ?Answer: S C Jamir

26. Who is the new President of Kenya ?Answer: Uhuru Kenyatta

27. Who is the new PM ( Premier of the People's Republic of China) of China ?Answer: Li Keqiang

28. Who is the new Pope?Answer: Pope Francis

29. What is the name of India's first regional navigational satellite ?Answer: IRNSS-1

30. Who scored fastest hundred on debut in test cricket ?Answer: Shikhar Dhawan

31. Where is India's first all women post office inaugurated on women's day ?Answer: Delhi

32. What is the theme of 2013 world water day (march 22) ?Answer: Water Cooperation

33. Which year is declared by UN as International Year of Water Cooperation ?Answer: 2013

34. Who is the winner of 2013 miss India ?answer: Navneet Kaur Dhillon 

35. who is the winner of 2013 Saraswati

Samman ?Answer: Sugathakumari (Manalezhuthu)

36. Who is recently reelected as IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Director general ?Answer: Yukiya Amano

37. Who is the new Prime Minister of Nepal ?Answer: Khil Raj Regmi

38. Who is the first female Prime minister of UK who recently passed away ?Answer: Margaret Thatcher

39. Who is the new pm of North Korea ?Answer: Pak Pong-ju

40. Who is the new venezuela president ?Answer: Nicolas Maduro

41. Who is the new president of Bangladesh ?Answer: Abdul Hamid

42. What is the theme of 2013 World Earth day (April 22) ?Answer: The face of climate change

43. Who is the new Governor of  Jammu and Kashmir ?answer: Narinder Nath Vohra

44. Who is the new president of ADB (Asian Development Bank) ?Answer: Takehiko Nakao

45. Who is the new prime minister of Italy ?Answer: Enrico Letta

46.  Who is the first woman speaker of Bangladesh ?Answer: Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury

47.  Who is the new Comptroller and Auditor General of India ?

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Answer: Shashi Kant Sharma

48. Who is the first Indian amputee to scale Everest ?Answer: Arunima Sinha

49. Who is the first Pakistani women to scale the Everest ?Answer: Samina Baig

50. Who is the first US women in space ?Answer: Sally Ride (Recently she won highest civilian honour of USA, Presidential medal of Freedom)

51. What is the theme of 2013 International Biological diversity Day (May 22) ?Answer: Water and Biodiversity 

52. Who is the winner of 2013 Man Booker International Prize ?Answer: Lydia Davis

53. What is the theme of 2013 World No- Tobacco Day ( May 31 ) ?Answer: Ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship

54. Who is the new Director General of DRDO ?Answer: Avinash Chander

55. Who is the new prime minister of Pakistan ?Answer: Nawaz Sharif56. Who were the first twins to scale mount Everest ?Answer: Tashi and Nancy Malik

57. What is the theme of 2013 World Environment Day (June 5) ?Answer: Think, Eat, Save

58. Who won the 2013 Templeton Prize ?Answer: Desmond Tutu

59. Who is the longest

serving defence minister in India ?Answer:  A.K Antony

60. Who is the winner of 2013 French open women's title ?Answer: Serena Williams

61. Who is the winner of 2013 French open men's title ?Answer: Rafael Nadal

62. Who is the new prime minister of Australia ?Answer: Kevin Rudd

63. Who is  the present chief justice of India ?answer:  P Sathasivam

64. Which is the first smoke free state of India ? Answer: Himachal Pradesh

65. Which is India's first navigational satellite ?Answer: IRNSS-1A

66. Who is the present foreign secretary of India ? answer: Sujata Singh  67. Who won 2013 Wimbledon Men's Title ?Answer: Andy Murray

68. Who won 2013 Wimbledon Women's Title ?Answer:  Marion Bartoli

69. what is the theme of 2013 World population day (July 11)?Answer: Adolescent pregnancy with an aspiration of safe childbirth and that each pregnancy is wanted

70. Who is the Recently elected Miss world 2013 ?

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Answer: Megan Young (Miss Philippines)

71. Who will represent India in Miss Universe 2013?answer : Mansi Moghe(Miss Diva 2013)

72) Winner of 2013  Nobel prize in physics ?Answer: François Englert and Peter W. Higgs

73) winner of 2013 chemistry Nobel prize ?Answer: Martin Karplus , Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel

74) 2013 Nobel Prize for  Literature WinnerAnswer: Alice Munro

75) 2013  Nobel Peace Prize winnerAnswer:  Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

76)winner of  2013 Nobel prize for Medicine ?Answer: James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Sudhof

77) Cyclone Phailin is expected to hit which indian state ?Answer: Odisha

78) Current ADB President ?Answer:Takehiko Nakao